I spoke with my friend Trevor Boffone, an expert in Latin@ Theatre and Literature and a professor of Spanish, about his latest exciting adventures. Please check out our conversation below and be sure to visit his websites, linked below. AJP: For people who don’t know, who are you, and what is your experience? TJB: I just finishedContinue reading “Introducing Dr. Trevor Boffone’s “50 Playwrights Project” – Interview Series #2″
Monthly Archives: March 2016
What is the value of expression?: Conformity, Capitalism, and Community
Unfortunately, capitalism commodifies everything and everyone and imposes conformity with or without consent across all “imagined communities”: Society assigns all texts subjective economic values. Including expressions. All subjectively. Expressions in the form of creating, discovering, thinking, or writing, for example. And people have to, in mainstream, contemporary society at least, figure out ways to succeed (andContinue reading “What is the value of expression?: Conformity, Capitalism, and Community”
Trumpism is merely the logical next step.
People express shock over the extreme popularity of Donald Trump’s campaign — one centered around psychologically- and physically- charged rhetorics of violence. Trump has, as we know, recently expressed hatred for all other countries and everyone accept the so-called “silent majority.” He and his followers are the perfect embodiment of the ideology bell hooks calls the (Heteronormative)Continue reading “Trumpism is merely the logical next step.”
Rhetoric, Code Switching, and Some Defenses of Hillary Rodham Clinton
During Democratic debates Hillary Rodham Clinton regularly interrupts and speaks over Bernie Sanders and the various moderators against official rules. This is not news, of course. However, this has been on my mind, as I try to understand what happened and look at it from various points of view. My latest thought is that if weContinue reading “Rhetoric, Code Switching, and Some Defenses of Hillary Rodham Clinton”
Inescapable Problems: Everyday Life, the Unseen, and the Shopping Mall
When discussing problems related to racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, anti-intellectualism, or Donald Trump, for example, you may often renounce these forces as non-existent and/or things that do no real harm, will not actually matter. You might go further and say people make things worse by discussing these things even where they “did” exist in the “distant, distant”Continue reading “Inescapable Problems: Everyday Life, the Unseen, and the Shopping Mall”
Comments about “Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics”
This evening I spent a few hours pursuing Rick Shenkman’s popular new book, Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. While the book’s aims are noteworthy, the book falls short of much of the excitement it is currently generating – excitement for sure in response to Donald Trump and Ted CruzContinue reading “Comments about “Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics””
The (Many) Imagined Constitution(s) – Hidden Power of Words Series, #23
I’m often a bit irked at how often people–the news, politicians, and other people in the United States–discuss whether something is or is not in the Constitution of the United States, whether something is Constitutional or not. Have these people actually read the Constitution? The Constitution is almost exclusively merely a basic instructional manual for the initial constructionContinue reading “The (Many) Imagined Constitution(s) – Hidden Power of Words Series, #23”
Pottery Seared With Monsters
Angry hands shaping pottery Pottery forcefully replicated Replicated with maker’s fears Fears that misunderstand Misunderstand and forget Forget the purpose of pottery – Pottery never dedicated Dedicated woefully and forced to bend Bend and break Break and bend and And heal itself from being Being forgotten and throwaway Throwaway Throwaway yet unearthed anew –Continue reading “Pottery Seared With Monsters”
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda 